The Boston Tea Party/Boston Massacre

True or False: The colonists were upset with the British for taxing their tea.

• False

• True

What does "boycott" mean?

• boy scouts

• A group of people

• to lay in a hammock

• to protest by refusing to buy or use something in order to bring about change

Who dumped the tea in the Boston Harbor?

• The Sons of Liberty

• the president

• People who lived in Boston

• Everyone

The colonists dressed like

• Frenchmen
• Halloween costumes
• sailors
• Native Americans

The colonists decided to 

• throw the tea into the harbor
• drink the tea
• pay for the tea
• send the tea back to England

Which phrase became popular after passage of the Stamp Act?

• “The rights of Englishmen”
• “Give me liberty or give me death”
• “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
• “No taxation without representation“

_______________ used messages and horseback riders to communicate and report on British movement/soldiers/and discuss unfair laws.

• Letters of Reccomendation

• Committees of Correspondence

• Articles of Confederation

• Mystical Messages of Massachussets

_____________ were passed by Great Britain in response to the colonists actions in the Boston Tea Party

• King Acts

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

• None of the above

Read numbers 1-5 below. Which answer best fits these descriptions?

1. Suspended Colonial Town Meetings

2. Closed the Port of Boston to Trade

3. Town Meetings were forbidden(this destroyed any type of self-representative government in the colonies.)

4. British soldiers RETURNED to Boston

5. Colonist were required to give quarter(soldiers living in their home) to British Soldiers.

• Legislative Acts

• Fairfield Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• British Acts

__________ was the first person killed at the Boston Massacre. He was an African American sailor.

• George Whitfield

• Aaron Rogers

• Crispus Attucks

• Henry Thorough